Raymond Cafferata
Raymond Cafferata (born March 13, 1897 in Liverpool , † August 1, 1966 in Birkenhead ) was a British police inspector in the British mandate of Palestine .
He was the police chief of Hebron during the Hebron massacre (1929) , in which an Arab mob murdered 67 Jews . He killed eight rioters, including at least one Arab police officer who had also participated in the massacre.
In 1940 he was appointed British Commander-in-Chief in Haifa District.
In 1944 he interrogated and tortured Asher Trattner, an Irgun Zwai Leumi terrorist captured by the British who died soon afterwards . Eight Jews were killed in a search of Kibbutz Givat Chaim , which he forced through in 1945. He was then the target of a car bomb attack by Irgun Zwai Leumi in 1946 , which he survived. Then he gave up all operational functions.
In 1948 he returned to his native Liverpool . In 1966 he died of leukemia .
Web links
- Lt. Raymond Oswald Cafferata on theauxiliaries.com, accessed November 28, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Benny Morris , Victimes. Histoire revisitée du conflit arabo-sioniste , 2003 (French)
- ^ Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice , Suny Press, 1992 (French)
- ^ Lt Raymond Oswald Cafferata , see web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cafferata, Raymond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Police Inspector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1966 |
| Place of death | Birkenhead |